Abstract
(1) Our scientific picture of nature is the product of an interaction to which both parties — we investigators and nature herself — make a crucial and inseparable contribution. (2) The inquiring intelligences of an extraterrestrial civilization might also develop a science. (3) But it would not necessarily be anything like our science. For while it unquestionably deals with the same world, it would doubtless differ in mode of formulation, subject-matter orientiation, and in conceptualization. (4) The one-world one-science argument is ultimately untenable. (5) Natural science as we have it is a human artifact that is bound to be limited in crucial respects by the very fact of it being our science. (6) The world-as-we-know-it is our world — the projection on the screen of mind of a world-picture devised in characteristically human terms of reference. It is not that natural science cannot underwrite valid claims to realism, but rather that the reality of our science is a characteristically human reality.
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